In every way. It's been 3 years of constant improvement. I can't give you a run-down of changes because everything has changed. It truly is a blend of MMO and Elder Scrolls now and feels like a TES game. Right down to stealing everything that isn't nailed down and running from city guards. Me, though, I'm having fun working my way up the ranks of the Dark Brotherhood. So much murder...

I've played a lot of MMOs - heck, I have 6 or 7 installed right now. This is still my favorite and the one I keep coming back to.

Now, even after saying that, I picked it up to look at with a few friends, but, it's not doing a lot to entice me or pull me in. Now, of course, some of that can easily be blamed on me. I'm very jaded by MMOs and easily see through most mechanics as 'time-sink' or some other bullshit, and very few games have elements in them dedicated to providing fun. Somewhere along the way (in my opinion) MMOs became more about how much skinner box can they fit into boring ass tasks and how long can they con the player into doing them. Especially when you're tackling any of these games solo.

Don't know what would finally entice me exactly, but, haven't found it yet.

That said, I did murderhobo my way through quite a number of things in ESO. It's frankly just more convenient than bothering with anything else half the time. I also did appreciate one guy that followed me around and begged me not to kill the NPCs as they hadn't done anything to me.

I simply replied with 'Lulz, phat lewts' and became everything I hate in the world.

Dear god, it's just like someone loving moved every speck of geography from the original game and ported it to ESO. And starting up, on a boat, with that Morrowind theme music playing? I swooned. Then, off the boat, into Seyda Neen... and to the Census Office. And Seyda Neen was just as I remembered it. Right down to the lighthouse.

I got curious and clicked through to the ESO website, then I clicked through the player guides, then I clicked on the store, then I clicked purchase and typed in my credit card, and now I'm 2% into downloading the game. Expecting to be lost in Tamriel very soon (or not very soon, since it looks like a massive set of files...).

Oh, and I had a look and I've got my original Morrowind discs sitting on my shelf and I've got a whole lot of plugins zipped up in a folder called "Playing", so I was really tempted to just load that up. Also got the same for Oblivion, although I couldn't get into that game properly. I never played Skyrim though...

It's really fun so far. I started the character I'd been thinking of (Nord archer type) and slowly played through the starting prison area, poking at everything and getting a feel for it all. When I came out into the world I ran around the town for a while getting an intial idea of items, character progression etc. Then I spent some time fiddling with gameplay settings and remapping my keys, deleted the character to start again properly and found that gameplay settings and keybinds are character specific and aren't retained across the account! That made me furious, because in FPSs I prefer ESDF to WASD so have to remap all my left hand keys. Anyway, I eventually got going again with a few tweaks, played through the main quest line on Bleakrock Island and as many side quests as I could find. Once I got off the island, I said "See ya" to Captain Rana and walked out of town. Planning to walk right across the continent.

I'm really enjoying it so far, although it doesn't feel quite as open a world as I'd like. There are too many impassable cliffs forcing me to follow the roads and not take a shortcut through the wilderness.